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by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism
You can tell that someone feels threatened by you when they publicly degrade and poke fun at you. Given that standard, the Tea Party has been under the skin of Democrats from the day that it sprung to life a little more than 2 years ago. As recent as the current budget battle, Harry Reid blames the Tea Party for not allowing Republicans to compromise on the Federal budget and perpetuate the excessive government spending. Thanks Harry. That’s the nicest thing you’ve said about the Tea Party in recent memory.
But why does the Democratic leadership actually fear the impact of the Tea Party? Yes the Tea Party is on the other side of the ideological spectrum from the Far Left wing of the Democratic Party. Clearly the Tea Party is fiscally conservative, believes in constitutionally limited government, and favors free market solutions. However those positions are an accurate description of most conservative voters’ beliefs so that isn’t what is under the Democratic leaders’ skin.
The average Tea Party member is over 35 years old. That fact aligns with the typical conservative voting demographic that includes individuals over 35 years of age with a skewing of the population to those 55 and older. So the Left’s concern isn’t caused by the fact that the Tea Party is a threat to the Left’s hold on older voters. The older voting population has always been split between the left and the conservatives. The older Americans with a taker mentality are liberal, and those with a builder mentality are conservative.
Continue...We have been bombarded with stories of oil and gas shortages before and after every war, earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, and political crisis. Speculators and big oil interests laugh while economies are thrown into recession. Leaders sit back while people starve due to the high price of oil and food. Oil shortages have never occured. Enough is enough. This Memorial Day Weekend, it is time for American citizens to put their foot down, and tell the speculators and OPEC that $4 per gallon is too much, and we don't want it.
Memorial Day Weekend, everyone park your cars, picnic in your own back yard, and support your local restaurant. Shut down the highways, and send a message that we cannot tolerate $4 gas, another recession, or a possible depression.
Patrick Reilley
Numidia PA
DEATH AND TAXES, How many times people traverse the ways of life make that old statement of the 2 absolutes. What I have found personally, is the prophetic voice of the Arch angel telling one in the old scriptures about the time that will come (which is right here and now). when the Tax man will be no more. Now from the perspective of the given text, did not elaborate as to the HOW it will happen. All I know is this, the VOTE is mightier than the Pen, Sword, even a Spoken Word.
If Politics can do in America what it has, then; We The Persons of this great Nation can too.
Build it and they will arrive to suit their own. Vote it, and they will arrive in Boots to suit the Mass.
Me, just now, 04-11-2011.
I have had several complaints about 'Jew Bashing' and I want everyone to understand there will be no hostile statements made against Jews ever permitted, in any way.
I understand in the heat of discussion words many times come out wrong. However, if there is ANY Jew Bashing statement on any page, erase those statements now, or your page will be deleted along with all your contacts.
Criticism is one thing, but general hostile intent is something completely different. The same thing goes to any race or religion. Don't bash.
Please remove all Bashing statements now.
Steve
I’m looking at a one dollar bill, at the words “In God We Trust.” It might as well be “Have a Nice Day.”
America’s politicians have agreed to cut federal spending. Compare the cut with cutting the family’s borrowing of an average of $500 per month over income by a couple of bucks. This deal makes the statement that the American people are not ready to face the consequences of a $14.3 trillion national debt. Easy money over a long period of years has left the American people used to living far over our ability to pay.
The world’s belief in America’s economy was bringing into America $2 billion dollars a day. The dollar was very strong. It is weak now and growing weaker by the day. Foreign investors are nervous about America’s economy. Less is being invested in America’s economy. Her economy is going to get weaker and weaker. The American people refuse to face it. In Washington, D.C., it is business as usual.
The American people believe the economy is coming back. Hasn’t it always? There is no valid reason for the economy to come back. We are in uncharted water. On the face side of my dollar, I read Federal Reserve Note. My dollar is a piece of paper that is rapidly falling in value in America and abroad. While America’s economy remains the strongest in the world, the world’s economy is melting down. Wall Street is whistling Dixie. At least my great grandchildren will not be paying our debt. The United States will default.
Before the masses catch on to the meltdown, it will be too late. My Federal Reserve notes will not be worth a “Continental damn.” Half of America’s businesses will shut down. Unemployment will be higher than during the Great Depression. As the left points out though, there is a lot of money in America. You bet! It will be spread out to the unemployed and the other dependents on government. The money taken from the rich will not be enough. The middleclass will have their pockets picked too.
My friends, this had to be. The high living American people are not used to living on little. It will be very hard. And you can bet the labor bosses and politicians are going to remain living well. There will be much anger.
With weak willed depression day losers behind him, Roosevelt trashed our Constitution. Eighty years of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s welfare state is as good as over. This phony Utopia you now see being exposed was never meant to be. Goodbye, Obama! Goodbye progressives! Goodbye liberal news media! Hey Senator Shummer, get lost! Extremists? Hardy! Michelle Bachman, the Tea Party is behind you. You are on the right track. We are entering a golden age. Prosperity will be beyond your wildest imagination.
We’ve not seen before the present knowledge base and one on one communication. A networking economy is underway between enterprising individuals, and for the first time in history.
Astrologer’s Handbook says the weak willed age of government losers is being replaced by the age we are now entering, the Age of Aquarius, an age of brotherhood. Government will mind its own business instead of ours.
“Soros, you see is making a great BLUFF and his multi-billions are now at risk . . . .”
Are Ben ‘n Barack Deliberately
Undermining Economy for Soros
Multi-billionaire supposed philanthropist~~ George Soros has now stepped out into the open. The man with the self-acknowledged “God complex” has pulled off the kid gloves and is moving in for the kill. Declaring that the dollar as we’ve known it is dead, not in so many words – but yes, in fact, Soros claimed at a recent conference at Bretton-Woods, New Hampshire that the American Dollar was no longer the world’s reserve currency. The “Man who Broke the Bank of England” (1992) a.k.a “The International Man of Misery,” infamous for preparing and profiting from the destruction of numerous nations’ currencies -- Soros laughingly talked about the badly-weakened Dollar now sharing duty with the Euro, the Yen and several other currencies. For those in the know, that highly gross insult wasn’t lost upon us . . . .
Soros knows as do we that 1) in the wake of bailing out Greece, Ireland and Portugal and preparing to bail out Italy, Spain and possibly Hungary . . . the Euro is a horrifically threatened currency and also that 2) the Japanese Yen has been devastated by the monster earthquake, tsunami, nuclear reactor problems and thirty huge aftershocks (the latest this week measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale) . . . in short the Dollar (if indeed it’s only on a par with the Yen and Euro), as George suggests, is dead as a doornail.
George didn’t have his billions back in the late 40’s when the British Pound Sterling gave up its two-century old position as the world’s reserve currency to the United States’ greenback, so he wasn’t able to profit from that terrific misery . . . but “Spooky Dude” definitely knows his history. Because of that, Soros said that efforts to attack the American DEBT were short-sighted and the only way for our economy to survive was to risk incurring a lot more debt to get the economy humming. He put it this way, “The big question is not whether the U.S. Dollar should be the world’s reserve currency. It no longer is. That role is shared with the Euro, Yen and other currencies and commodities such as gold, oil . . . .”
Acting as if he, King George, was the acknowledged leader of the entire world, Soros set up his economic conference on the site of the famous Bretton-Woods economic conference which charted the monetary future of the planet as the end of World War II approached. That first Bretton Woods agreement established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world’s major industrial states in the mid-20th Century. In planning the rebuilding of the international economic system as the European and Pacific Wars still raged, 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton-Woods, N.H. and after proper deliberation signed the Bretton-Woods Agreements during the first three weeks of July 1944. Soros at his Bretton-Woods meetings has called for the renunciation of the American Dollar right here on American soil in a particularly grandiose and self-serving manner.
All that not being enough for Spooky George, he tried his hand at straightforward sabotage as well. In his prescription to rush the fall of the Buck once and for all, Soros pretended he was offering good economic advice designed to save the currency as he pooh-poohed calls for strengthening the dollar by dealing with the debt (such as Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan has made with his proposed 2012 budget) saying, “There is very a strong push to tighten the budget as a way to reduce government spending… In my opinion, the country could actually absorb some more debt in order to get the economy going. If you have a growing economy, you can tolerate a higher level of debt.” Soros, you see is making a great BLUFF and his multi-billions are now at risk . . . .
That’s right, Soros who has twice before made a play to bring the United States’ fiscal house down around us was NOT counting on the fiscal-conservative backlash that has dominated the U.S. political scene since mid-2010 and sent so many progressive big-spending politicians’ (88% of them progressive Democrats) packing in the most recent elections. As a result his “bets” against America are deeply at risk. He is heavily invested in futures positions based upon the collapse of our currency . . . thus preparing to once again repeat the successful currency forays that made him a multi-billionaire while helping wreck the economies of Britain (a second time), Russia, Malaysia, etc., etc. ad nauseum. Next to the radical jihadist element of Islam, no one hates the United States nearly so much as George Soros does. He made his first big play to cut the country down to size, by pouring billions into the Kerry election campaign in 2004 and into anti-George W. Bush propaganda. Bush #2 was not our wisest president, no doubt . . . but he was patriotic enough and wise enough NOT to get under George Soros’s thumb (something that Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama cannot say) and wise enough NOT to consider printing money as a satisfactory answer to any sort of problem. Barack Obama, by comparison, is a George Soros puppet.
Speaking of “the great man who’s now along with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) already spent over $1.2 million to prevent efforts to find his birth certificate” -- less than a week ago President Obama became the first to throw his hat officially into the ring as a declared candidate for the presidency in 2012 . . . now he and his campaign are officially prepared to receive all the millions that Soros and his fifty progressive foundations can pour his way. If the policies of Barack Obama have been seemingly impossible to understand, one has only to ask three questions to clear up the matter completely. A) What would the international communists and America’s labor leaders want him to do to undermine the United States? B) What would George Soros prefer? And C) How can he best disguise his loyalties to Georgie S. and his Red Friends. Usually the first two questions generate the same answer and Barack’s duty is clear. When there is conflict between the two positions, Obama is forced to think for himself and his trademark “dithering” becomes apparent as he seeks to chart Path C.
Whether or not Barack proves to be a one-term president will likely depend upon the economy and/or his ability to sell Americans on his contention that the economy belongs 100% to his predecessor – always has, always will. With the liberal media on his side, it won’t necessarily be a hard sell. Surprisingly, 34% of voters still give him good or excellent marks on running the economy although only 14% believe their taxes will go down due to Obama’s governing; only 30% now see their own financial picture as good or excellent; and 69% of American voters call themselves “at least somewhat angry” about the policies of the government. With the unending help of the media, Obama will likely be made a hero by the media for the passage of the 2011 budget with two more challenges ahead: the status of the national debt (he wants to raise the Debt Ceiling up well past $15 TRillion) and the 2012 budget drafted by Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan (which cuts $6.2 TRillion from the debt over the next decade; compared to Mr. Obama’s budget which increased spending 4% and ratchet up the deficits and debt as well.
Obama’s unwitting^^ partner in crime in making King George’s dreams come true is Ben Bernanke, Chief of the Federal Reserve Banking System. The stagnation the country has felt economically is now being compounded by Bernanke-created inflation. At present the ceaseless physical and electronic creation of money by Mr. Bernanke has made the 2011 U.S. dollar technically worth only 3.2 pennies worth if the late 2008 greenback. The treasury department has hidden our current inflation by A) insisting that food and fuel costs don’t count and B) by overweighting the cost of housing in the current inflation statistics. Since we don’t buy houses everyday and since we do need food and fuel every day, in reality we are now paying 16% more for the everyday necessities than we did when George W. Bush was president. While the civilized world has been ostentatiously tightening its belt Bernanke, Barack, Soros & other Sons of B______ have been seriously counterfeiting the American Dollar.
You need look no further than the Euro . . . this abysmally weak currency is now trading very strong about 1 4/9 as valuable as the Buck. All over the globe folks are noticing and buying gold, silver, oil, or other currencies with their dollars. Few are eager to embrace dollars unless they’re given bonus amounts. The debt and the inflation scare are two sides of the same coin with Barack, Ben and Soros the edge of that coin . . . trying to sell the world and Americans on the notion that stagflation is a great step on the road to repairing the American economy. Surprisingly, George Soros might be even more over-extended than the American economy is. If his bluff doesn’t work and doesn’t help rush the American economy into absolute bankruptcy, King George might just find himself a mere hundred millionaire again, more’s the pity.
Besides that potential problem: 1) George’s funding for ACORN has now proven a major liability 2) Soros, Gore, Obama, Raines, Rogers, Strong, both Clintons, several Goldman Sach’s bigwigs and at least 54 other top progressives already lost their shirts when their little cap and trade scheme backfired and they had to sell out their holdings in the CCX (Chicago Climate eXchange) after neither legislative bullying nor Obama-ordered EPA regulatory bullying proved sufficient to move the nation toward full carbon-trading. Instead of hundreds of billions of profits they wound up collectively losing millions. Al Gore just missed becoming the first “Green Billionaire” and Soros’ foundations suffered mightily. Bottom line, Barack Obama badly owes his puppet-master . . . do not expect him to cave in on the Ryan budget in any way, shape or form. Unlike the first ACORN president who delivered the Motor-Voter Act and four separate expansions** of CRA ’77 to ACORN in payment for their corrupt backing . . . the totally incompetent “Anointed One” Barack Obama has failed to deliver much of anything to his handlers. The Deficit-Ceiling votes and the Ryan Budget Package will undoubtedly be his last hurrah unless he finds unmitigated success . . . which the G.O.P. can hand him or deny.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
~~ Philanthropist is a euphemism used by progressives to describe King George Soros. Like all euphemisms, this is a LIE to hide truth that’s harsh, offensive or blunt.
According to Canada Free Press, “George Soros is a ‘philanthropist’ if by ‘philanthropist’ we mean one who creates chaos, destruction and financial ruin for his own personal gain, it’s a perfect fit. Calling Soros a philanthropist is rather like referring to the Nazi block wardens as Neighborhood Watch.” They go on . . . .
“Soros certainly gives lots of money away. But a philanthropist acts to improve the human condition. Soros acts solely to improve the Soros condition. Despite the lofty sounding rhetoric about an Open Society, Soros’ objective is to wreck the United States. Actually Soros never really defines his Open Society. The concept arose in the 1930s with the notion of a moral code based on “universal principles”. After tweaking the concept to suit his own purposes, Soros adopted his own version of an Open Society which would be one in which the US has no power.
“Soros was born in Hungary in 1930 to non-practicing Jewish parents. His father, a lawyer was able to hide their identities and young George was recruited by the Nazi’s Judenrat to hand out flyers deceptively directing Jews to turn themselves in for deportation to the death camps. Soros later said he found the work exhilarating. Later passing himself as an official’s godson, he accompanied his benefactor confiscating valuables from innocent Jews. Soros would later tell Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes that he had ‘no remorse’ about what he had done.
“In fact, Soros doesn’t have remorse for much, if anything. In The Shadow Party (David Horowitz and Richard Poe, 2006), Soros is quoted as saying that ‘conscience clouds an investor’s judgment.’”
Additionally, our philanthropist Mr. Soros has been accused several times of illegal currency manipulation and also was convicted in France of insider trading . . . certainly he has no compassion for the victims of his monetary shenanigans.
^^Bernanke is a self-mis-directed-would-be patriot who mistakenly believes he and only he correctly understands American economic history. Big Ben has written several scholarly papers on the Great Depression. He actually believes that by and large Hoover on the one hand and FDR and his administration on the other did a relatively good job and that a huge amount of the blame for the depth and duration of the Great Depression were caused by unenlightened Federal Reserve policies and too-tight monetary$$ policies. The Fed was undoubtedly at fault somewhat, but the anti-capitalistic actions of Hoover and FDR are the root cause. When he’s not allowed to read his own writing, Bernanke makes a lot more sense. Indeed, at times he sounds like he’s got his finger on the pulse of things when he says he favors
a) “Reducing the U.S. budget deficit by reform of the Social Security and Medicare entitlement programs”
b) Accomplished by cutting spending, or entitlement payments or raising taxes or some combination of those three actions.
He notably does not account for the debilitating effect of raising taxes on prosperity . . . .
$$ No one seems to know, much less take advantage of the great historical lesson known as the “Invisible Depression” wherein Woodrow Wilson’s (much more acute recession than the 1929 market crash brought about) severe recession was tamed in fifteen months by President Warren G. Harding’s combination of cutting spending by 49%; cutting taxes by 48% and paying down the debt 30%. FDR, while calling Hoover “a socialist” promised to repeat the Harding formula, but, of course, did exactly the opposite and extended the depression into a 12.5 year Great Depression.
** CRA ’77 was the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 passed by Jimmy Carter and progressive politicians (about 86% of them Democrats). This was the greatest government interference in the free market ever conceived. Banks and mortgage companies were required to knowingly make abysmally bad loans to unqualified would-be home owners. In 1976, 0.24% of home loans were considered ‘suspect.’ Thanks to ACORN (then the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now) working almost totally in Arkansas under Governor Bill Clinton, that rate for the entire nation doubled to 0.51% suspect loans by 1986. When Clinton took office in 1993 he repaid ACORN (become the Associations of Community Organizations for Reform Now) with the Motor-Voter Act and a huge regulatory expansion of CRA ’77 almost immediately. In 1995 he twice legislatively expanded CRA ’77. By 1996, 14.08% of all home loans in the country were suspect. In 1998, Clinton passed the steroid-version expansion of CRA legislation. By 2000, the housing bubble was underway and the sub-prime lending crisis was a fact of life by 2005 when 34% of all home loans were suspect . . . but the situation was much worse than the numbers showed: instead of a tiny amount of loans at 3% down payment for $80,000 and $120,000 homes we had a huge amount of 0% loans on homes in the $320,000 to $480,000 range. Instead of “iffy” loans to former military officers attending college on the GI Bill (0.24% in 1976); we now had horrifically bad loans at 0% to people without jobs; with horrible credit ratings; without even rental histories; whose only “income” was food stamps; and even to illegal aliens. If you’re confused by all this and why the word “deliberately” was deliberately used in the headline to his blog: here’s some information on the progressives’ Cloward-Piven Strategy published in 1966, which deliberately bankrupted New York City in 1975 requiring a federal bailout . . . .
There appears to be no boundaries to hypocrisy nowadays. The budget "cuts" were not cuts of any kind, but merely a small reduction in the amount of SPENDING. It is a step forward, but a very small one, and in some ways a step backwards, by not addressing the real problem of spending. With a current 1.65 TRILLION budget deficit facing us, and less than .05% reduction in spending, we're on a real down-slide. It's not a roller-coaster anymore. It's a tobaggan on an ice-covered slope with a really big tree at the bottom that you hit head-first. (Been there for that one.) Understanding Boehner's position in relation to reality, is difficult. Needing to take some action, or any action, was probably his thinking, but if he'd been listening at all, he'd have insisted on not just the 100 billion originally talked about, but the additional 105 billion that Michelle Bachman insisted on that dealt with ObamaCare. Let the government shut down...let the usurper on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue veto a bill and defund our troops...MAKE THE TRAITORS OWN THEIR OWN TREASONOUS POLICIES.
This is where we've gotten to...a complete abdication by anyone with any ability, or power, to take the necessary actions needed to correct a fatal decent into tyranny and misery.
I guess it helps when you don't have to pay for your own gas, or pump it, either.
We have a saying down here in the South---"Shut 'er down, Leon...she's pumpin' mud!!!"
This administration is pumping a whole lot more than that, and it's about the same texture, only smells worse.
It's way past time to start righting the "ship of state." First thing to do, is throw the captain overboard for running it aground on purpose.
hey all speaker boehner sold us all out last night. He and the republican rhino's broke their promise to us in their pledge to american and instead of getting 100 billion dollars of cuts, or 61 billion because 6 months are gone he came away with 39.1 billion and no approval of any of the rides. he is no leader, he talk with fork tongue and gave the democrates everything the wanted. He speaks weel but his actions speak louder, he is no leader and has no guts and we need to get rid of him and get a true leader that will fight to get spending reduced alot to save our country. If he could stand up now he will not stand up when the debit ceiling is going to be increase and ryans 2012 budget will get pushed aside because the democrates know he is weak and will not fight.
I have been a republican for 57 years but on monday i am going down and re register as an independent. We need a third party made up of independents, discourage republicans and tea party and we would win. The american people are ready because they are fed up with both parties, the promises they make and the lack of guts and leadership they show. The rhinos need to go and all those republicans that betray us need to go also.
GOAL 2
Achieve Universal Primary Education
TARGET
1. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Quick Facts
* Enrolment in primary education in developing regions reached 89 per cent in 2008, up from 83 per cent in 2000.
* The current pace of progress is insufficient to meet the target by 2015.
* About 69 million school-age children are not in school. Almost half of them (31 million) are in sub-Saharan Africa, and more than a quarter (18 million) are in Southern Asia.
WHERE DO WE STAND?
Despite great strides in many countries, the target is unlikely to be met. Enrolment in primary education has continued to rise, reaching 89 per cent in the developing world in 2008. Between 1999 and 2008, enrolment increased by 18 percentage points in sub-Saharan Africa, and by 11 and 8 percentage points in Southern Asia and Northern Africa, respectively. But the pace of progress is insufficient to ensure that, by 2015, all girls and boys complete a full course of primary
schooling. To achieve the goal by the target date, all children at official entry age for primary schooling would have had to be attending classes by 2009. Instead, in half of the sub-Saharan African countries with available data, at least one in four children of enrolment age was not attending school in 2008.
About 69 million school-age children were not going to school in 2008, down from 106 million children in 1999. Almost three-quarters of children out of school are in sub- Saharan Africa (31 million) or Southern Asia (18 million). Drop-out rates in sub-Saharan Africa remain high.
Achieving universal primary education requires more than full enrolment. It also means ensuring that children continue to attend classes. In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 30 per cent of primary school students drop out before reaching a final grade.
UNITED NATIONS SUMMIT
20-22 September 2010, New York High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly
Moreover, providing enough teachers and classrooms is vital in order to meet demand, most notably in sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated that double the current number of teachers would be needed in sub-Saharan Africa in order to meet the primary education target by 2015.
WHAT HAS WORKED?
• Abolishing school fees in Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Nepal and Tanzania:
The abolition of school fees at primary school level has led to a surge in enrolment in a number of countries.
In Tanzania, the enrolment ratio had doubled to 99.6 per cent by 2008, compared to 1999 rates. In Ethiopia, net enrolment was 79 per cent in 2008, an increase of 95 per cent since 2000. But the surge in enrolment in developing regions has brought a new set of challenges in providing enough teachers and classrooms.
• Investing in teaching infrastructure and resources in Ghana, Nepal and Tanzania: Ghana has recruited retirees and volunteers to meet teacher demand. Additional funds have also been allocated for the provision of temporary classrooms and teaching materials. In Nepal, investment
has ensured that more than 90 per cent of students live within 30 minutes of their local school. And Tanzania has embarked on an ambitious programme of education reform, building 54,000 classrooms between 2002 and 2006, as well as hiring 18,000 additional teachers.
FACT SHEET
• Promoting education for girls in Botswana, Egypt and Malawi: Egypt’s Girls’ Education Initiative and Food-for- Education (FFE) programme encourage girls to attend school by providing free education and by constructing and promoting ‘girl-friendly schools’. By 2008, more than 1,000 schools were built and almost 28,000 students enrolled. In conjunction the FFE programme provides school meals to 84,000 children in poor and vulnerable communities. Botswana has reduced female drop-out rates by half by implementing readmission policies.
Malawi has been promoting girls’ education in grades 1-4 by providing learning materials.
• Expanding access to remote and rural areas in Bolivia and Mongolia: Mongolia has introduced mobile schools (‘tent schools’) to reach children who would otherwise not have regular access to primary education. One hundred mobile schools have been providing educational services across 21 provinces. In Bolivia, a bilingual education programme has been introduced for three of the most widely used indigenous languages. It covered 11 per cent of primary schools in 2002, expanding access to education for indigenous children in remote areas.
WHAT IS THE UN DOING?
• The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) supports countries in building quality primary education systems that reach all children, for instance through the Basic Education in Africa Programme, advocating for countries to adopt legal frameworks guaranteeing 8-10 years of uninterrupted basic education.
• In Ethiopia, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) supports a programme called “Berhane Hewan” which advocates putting an end to child marriages and keeping girls in school. To encourage families to let the girls complete schooling, girls receive a female sheep upon completing the programme. In Malawi, UNFPA is working with Youth Councils to repeal a law allowing girls as young as 16 to be married and to support campaigns to keep girls in school.
• The World Food Programme (WFP) provides school meals, which act as a strong incentive for parents to send their children to school and help to build the nutritional foundation that is essential for a child’s future intellectual development and physical well-being. The programme
also encourages parents to send more girls to attend classes.
• The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) partnered with UNESCO to
address problems affecting education in politically unstable environments. ESCWA was responsible for infrastructure, while UNESCO took care of training and e-learning. The initiative facilitated capacity building sessions on education strategy, instructor training and the creation of courses for teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speaking Iraqi schoolchildren.
Sources: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010,
United Nations; UN MDG Database (mdgs.un.org); MDG Monitor
Website (http://www.mdgmonitor.org); What Will It Take to Achieve the
Millennium Development Goals? – An International Assessment
2010, UN Development Programme (UNDP); UN Girls’ Education
Initiative, UNICEF (http://www.ungei.org); UN Population Fund (UNFPA);
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);
World Food Programme (WFP); UN Regional Commissions, New
York Office.
For more information, please contact mediainfo@un.org
or see http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
Issued by the UN Department of Public Information – DPI/2650 B - September 2010
And what, you may ask does this have to do with the USA? How are we implementing it?
US Department of Education:Anne Duncans “vision” (She is the Secretary for the Dept of Education)
“Our goal for the coming year will be to work closely with global partners, including UNESCO, to promote qualitative improvements and system-strengthening. With such a shared commitment, we believe that we can greatly reduce the number of children out of school and ensure that the children who are in class are actually learning.”
Is in this section:
http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/vision-education-reform-united-states-secretary-arne-duncans-remarks-united-nations-ed
Global Connections and Exchange Programs
An online resource on the website of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State that includes links to classrooms worldwide through a range of programs.
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/citizens/students/
worldwide/connections.htm
http://www2.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/guide_pg2.html?exp=5
How does the Department fit into the International Scope of things, I mean it IS the US Dept of Education right?:
The United States and UNESCO
The United States has several education-related priorities with respect to UNESCO. These include: (1) a special emphasis on literacy; (2) quality education and equal access to educational opportunities; (3) capacity-building, information-sharing and cooperation, including rebuilding education in post-conflict countries; and (4) education to combat HIV/AIDS and other health emergencies as well as environmental education. The United States supports the international momentum behind the Education for All movement coordinated by UNESCO, which has goals similar to U.S. educational reform initiatives, including accountability mechanisms.
On October 20, 2004 the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO was re-established as an advisory body to the U.S. government and a liaison to UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The Commission comprises representatives from various non-governmental organizations interested in matters of education, science, culture, and communications. It also includes at-large individuals and state, local, and federal government representatives.
The United States participation in UNESCO is managed by the U.S. Mission to UNESCO, located in Paris, France and the Bureau of International Organizational Affairs (IO) at the Department of State.
http://www2.ed.gov/about/inits/ed/internationaled/unesco.html
"The U.S. Department of Education, together with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education International (EI) and U.S.-based organizations – National Education Association (NEA), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), Asia Society and WNET, hosted the summit to help spread effective policies and practices to strengthen and elevate the teaching profession in ways that improve educational outcomes for children in all societies.
“It’s clear that no two countries are the same but that doesn’t mean we don’t face common challenges,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “The International Summit on the Teaching Profession is an extraordinary opportunity to broaden our perspective on how to effectively recruit and support teachers. This is an area where we need to move forward with a sense of urgency because building a strong teaching force is critical to having a successful education system.”
http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/sixteen-countries-and-regions-convened-first-ever-international-summit-teaching-
"Embracing the President’s 2010 U.S. Global Development Policy
principles, USAID will invest education resources strategically to achieve measurable and sustainable educational outcomes through enhanced selectivity, focus, countryled
programming,
division of labor and innovation. Additionally, critical priorities such as improved evaluation practices, gender integration
and sustainability will undergird all of our investments. We will look for opportunities to achieve greater impact and scale, based on a country’s commitment to reform, potential to achieve rapid results, and relative educational need."
USAID Education strategy 2011-2015…MDG all over it
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/education_and_universities/documents/USAID_ED_Strategy_feb2011.pdf
Open, Closed, Open, Closed! The White House is becoming to much like Hollywood with all the Drama. Maybe they too can get their own Reality Show. ...lol This is the America we live in, are you fucking kidding me! These are the Educated people who run this country, Pathetic! No wonder why people like reality shows, they love the Drama.
I am ashamed to even be an American, I cannot believe you people fall for the same bullshit, still the same because nothing changes and the people are suckers and fools again and again. When you people decide to really get serious about the Constitution, call me and I will fight.
The People are the only ones who can change what is going on and until the people get serious, nothing will. The People let them spend what they want and on who they want and do nothing, but blame the Government. The fault lies with the people, not Capital Hill.
If all you people really want change, do it and quit the blame game and stand up and follow the letter of "Declaration of Independence" if not, then you deserve what you have been getting for a long time and that is.... The American people have become weak, cowards, Slaves and bow down to what ever they wish to do, while we do nothing. It is time to abolish your current Government and institute a new one who is of the people by the people. Out of 350 million People, I am sure we could get about 5 million to march on Capital hill with guns and fire their ass.
If you really want change, then you have to be serious about how much this country really means too you. Are there really Patriots out there?
I'm not black.
I'm a 57 yr. old white, Christian woman, with 3 daughters.
Let me tell my black sisters about Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, the founder.
Sanger was the ultimate racist.
She founded Planned Parenthood with one goal in mind:
The elimination of the black race.
Sanger provided free abortions to any and all black women.
White women, they had to pay. Blacks could get one for free.
That was the genesis for Planned Parenthood.
The sorry fact is that the idea continues to exist in 2011.
Planned Parenthood builds all their 'offices' in black neighborhoods.
You won't find one in white suburbs.
If you are black and wind up pregnant, 87% of the time Planned Parenthood will recommend abortion.
They will also lie to you if they say you have an STD.
76% of all black babies end in abortion.
76%.
That is a disgusting number.
54 million babies have been aborted since Roe V. Wade.
That is 41 million black babies.
My reaction was...You gotta be kidding!
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That was my post on Yahoo.
It got me bumped.
Evicted.
I guess I will need a new user-name.
They can't handle the truth.
What's your reaction?
Surprise, Surprise, a shutdown was averted by Republicans caving to Harry Reid, and Obama. Supposedly it is a 41 Billion deal which has NOT defunded Obamacare, Planned Parenthood etc. Now I will say it outright. Ladies and Gentlemen, NO ONE, besides us is interested in restoring our nation to sanity. For those who would say, we had to do this now because we wouldnt have gotten anything else; let me ask this, do you REALLY believe that the Republicans are interested in "getting tough" now? Do you REALLY? Please see my posts and you will see why no one is watching out for this country. They are called Millennium Development Goals, there are 8 of them, and they are breaking the bank. Until we remove our country from being signed on to them, we will continue to receive this same type of trickery. Did you know, for example that the Obama GHI (global health initiative) is a 63 billion dollar bill over ten years. The climate change initiative is about the same. Obamacare is funding 200 BILLION from this years budget alone. Do you REALLY think they are going to "Get Tough" at this point? If you wish to see a tiny fraction of what is going on, please go to: http://www.unamericantakeover.org/index.php Did you know that we ARE going to get a global government? Yes, next year it is being voted upon. Please do NOT try to read it in an hour. However, find the area that interests you the most and read what we are in for.
Respectfully,
Allen
"No Compromise in defense of Liberty!"
Village Idiot & Useful Idiot's
First we have a "Village Idiot" aka Barack Obama/Soetoro
Then we have "Useful Idiot's" aka Democratic Party Leader's
Sen. Harry Reid (D) is now blaming the Tea Party if Government Shut's Down.
WHY on Earth would the Democrat's "blame" The Tea Party?
The "Tea Party" is made up of both Democrat's & Republican's
who simply want to "Lower" Our deficit by having "less" spending and "less" government. Simple.
It was the Democrat's who FAILED to provide the 2010 Budget
while they controlled the House, Senate, and Executive Branch.
They could have done "anything" they wanted. They chose "nothing", but have to blame someone.
Hopefully, Harry's remarks will only fuel the "Tea Party" to be
more active in their pursuit of a balanced budget with less government controls.....................Dan, NY
(I caught a picture of this background "sign" rally in D.C. on Fox 4/08/2011)
Need I say more....
